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maevedarcy posting in

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Hello, everyone!

So, I'm writing a fic where a plane disappears in the US. As in, it drops from all radars for a few minutes and it's presumed down for a few hours. I need to know any plausible flight routes within the US from Boston where this could happen. Any stretches of land where a pilot could make an emergency landing and the plane still be presumed down for like an hour or three is good for me.

beluosus

Here ad Barbican revenimus ad Twelfth Night spectandum. Idem ac postremum inibi spectaculo (The Seagull), istud in intervallo effugimus.

Scaena erat magnificum et lugubrum, nullo modo fabulae idoneum, sicut false ibi aedificata est, et alibi tragoedia Frederici Schiller in regio illyrico agitur. Tabulae quam fraudulenter Violam habitu elizabethano ostendunt, sed in scaena omnes edwardianis vestimentis apparent, nisi Orsino in pyjamas villutis ut leno videretur.

Et sollemnia spectacula graeca apud King's College magis magisque anglice aguntur.

tahnan

Almost a year ago, I wrote a puzzle for a 52nd birthday party. I'm well past my own birthday but I'm still 52 for a few more months, so there's still time to reasonably share it:

Poke 'er Hands?

The instructions are in that document, and you'll want this helpfully shuffled deck of cards as well (click for a larger version):

Feel free to print it on cardstock, cut it out, and shuffle the cards around. Or play poker with them! At any rate, you can check your answer here.

magid

3.5 pounds of sweet potatoes
3 pounds of beets
3 pounds of purple starburst daikon
a big bag of spinach (1.5 pounds, maybe?)
a pint of Real Pickles kimchi, swapped for more sweet potatoes due to their lack of kosher certification, alas

First thoughts: I need to buy alliums. Maybe a pot of split pea soup with carrots and sweet potatoes. Carrot-daikon slaw. Maybe look into some kind of steamed shredded daikon + flour thing that then gets fried, that someone mentioned at the distribution site. Someone else mentioned beet muhammara, which also sounds interesting. Pickle all the things (ok, not the leaves or the sweet potato). Add a handful of spinach to any sautes I make.

And though I can access most of the site just fine, when I try to look at my archive/calendar, I get a message about not being able to access the site in Mississippi, due to the court case. Which I knew about, but neither I nor my computer has ever been in Mississippi; I haven’t even left MA in the last year! So something’s hinky somewhere.

elusiveat posting in

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Can anyone recommend a good local dermatologist?

It's been a bit since I had an appointment, and when I called the place I used to go, they said they were scheduling out to November 2026.

I'm hoping for a place with a no-nonsense approach that will focus on skin health, not marketing cosmetic procedures.

jadelennox

finally watching season 2 of the live action Ronia the Robber's Daughter from 2024 and my kingdom for someone who will talk about the cinematography with me the way people are breaking down the Heated Rivalry longing gazes.

Also Ronia singing the wolf song and me being surprised about pronunciation of "Du varg, du varg" and then me realizing it's the exact same way anglos always mispronounce Greta Thunberg's name.

tablesaw

And my desire to condense it into an update prevents the update itself.

Since it's the last thing I wrote about here, inbox zero, combined with a switch from Google to Proton for mail services has increased my enjoyment of mail and made newsletters more readable. I'd been following some good writers, now I actually read them. And the reading is inspiring, moreso than microblogging.

Along the lines of microblogging, I am more rigorous about writing on my Letterboxd, even though I was delinquent for the beginning of the year. I'm trying to get together various retrospectives for 2025, including my top new releases.

I also recently participated in a music mix/swap where I took inspiration from my movie-going. There's a youtube playlist and explanation list.

I'm trying not to commit to too much in the new year where I am full of restless energy, but some other thoughts for 2026:

Accept the poor image
Dispel the illusion of explanatory depth
Barf forth apocalyptica

Current Music: "My Baby (Got Nothing at All)", Japanese Breakfast

gravemind posting in

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Hello! I have three questions, all about the work of trauma/critical care/acute care surgeons in the US:

1) Would it ever be feasible for a TACS attending at an academic Level I trauma center to take semi-regular lunch breaks when on day shift (obviously assuming there’s no major trauma needing resuscitation and/or immediate operation, and assuming they have adequate support from residents, etc.)? What if it was decreed necessary by their doctor or their psychologist?

Narratively the goal here is to get the character outdoors near the hospital at a regular-ish time for ~30 minutes at least a few days a week, on at least some weeks. Judging from what I’ve read from people in this specialty on reddit it sounds as though this might (???) be achievable at some hospitals, especially if their setup happens to be rotating weeks of ICU / non-ICU trauma / EGS / admin-and-research, but given the apparent prevalence of hospital workers in acute care specialties not getting any breaks whatsoever I really can’t tell.

2) At what point is the TACS attending no longer involved in a patient’s care if the patient ends up requiring a long-term (at least several months) hospital stay to recover? Would it be as soon as the patient is stable enough to be out of the ICU? My understanding is that since trauma surgeons are largely doing non-surgical critical care and may often be in charge of the ICU they might be managing an operative trauma patient for a while post-op, but I’m not clear on at what point that patient stops being their problem.

3) To whom would a TACS attending (again, at an academic Level I) report to within the hospital hierarchy? Would it be the chief of the trauma service(?) (And would that person be the same or different from whoever they would need to clear FMLA leave or vacation time with?)

Any information or corrections on any of this greatly appreciated! Thank you!

lennymacb posting in

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Howdy! My screenplay takes place in rural North Dakota in November 1996, and two teenage characters are fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I know the bat'leth as a weapon was introduced in the show long ago, but when did replicas and toys become widely sold? Would it be realistic for a working-class young woman to have a mini bat'leth she could use as a knife in that year? I also read that the mek'leth (smaller Klingon scimitar) was introduced in DS9 and also appeared in First Contact. How early were replicas of those available to fans?
Thanks a million to you all! Would also love to hear any other miscellaneous stories or details of the TNG+DS9 fandom of the 90s, to give some extra oomph and care to an underrepresented community :)

magid

a quart bag of shredded cabbage* and carrot* slaw, dressed with shoyu, rice vinegar, ume plum vinegar, lime juice, and sesame seeds
the leftover of the cabbage* and carrot* that wouldn’t fit in the bag, dressed with mayo, mustard, and lime juice, for breakfast
four pints of mixed lightly sweetened fruit canned: apples*, cranberries, mandarins, and lemons
a tray of roasted purples: beets* and purple starburst daikon*
a tray of roasted oranges: carrots* and sweet potatoes*
macaroni and cheese (mozzarella and parmesan) with some zucchini and peas
’Mediterranean’ cholent experiment, with beef shin pieces, onions, diced lemon, sweet potatoes*, garlic*, almonds, Manzanilla olives, farro, spinach*, some aquafaba (alas, I’m out of actual chickpeas, or I would’ve added some), fennel*-zucchini*-garlic scape* relish (canned in June 2022), and shepherd herb mix

* locally sourced

Also accomplished today: a ceramic vase a coworker had decided to give me months ago finally brought to the florist; a stop at the post office (I hadn’t expected there to be an extra charge for a square envelope sent internationally); and food grade mineral oil bought at the local hardware store (although the plan to oil all the wooden kitchen things hasn’t yet happened).

yuletidemods posting in

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End of Event
We have revealed creator names at the main 2025 collection and the 2025 Madness collection. (Reveals seems to be working as intended - fingers crossed!) The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection will shortly open for posting. The structured parts of this year's event are over - but you can keep posting recs at

yuletide and commenting on works to let their creators know you enjoyed them.

Please comment!

Please check that you have commented on any gifts you received - you can search on your username at the Yuletide 2025 collection, or the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection, or check your own personal AO3 gifts page. We understand not everyone can comment immediately due to late-December commitments or unforeseen events, but please comment when you can to acknowledge the gifts you requested. Comments and kudos on other Yuletide works are also very welcome.

Thank you from mods and team
Thank you to everyone who took part in Yuletide 2025: writers, requesters, betas, pinch hitters, community coordinators, chatters, hippos and the hippo pool.

Thank you from mods to the tagmod team: these are the assistants who research and process tags, proofread announcements, brainstorm author questions, contribute specific fandom knowledge, check stories, and discuss how to solve problems.

We look forward to running Yuletide again in 2026!

And now
There's a reveals post up at the participant community, if you want to chat about your writing process now that you can.

New stories can be posted to the New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection.

Feedback
As always, general feedback is welcome!

This year, we increased the nominations allowance from 4 fandoms to 5 fandoms. Since that worked okay, we anticipate continuing that next year.

We introduced a limited Do-Not-Match system. That was manageable so we're interested in repeating the same process next year - though it's possible it could grow beyond our capacity, so we don't want to guarantee it indefinitely.

We changed the deadline time and the reveals times. Those changes were based on mod availability, and it was really helpful to us to have multiple mods awake at the point of deadline and reveals. We'll need to base future deadline and reveals times on that priority, but since that isn't the only factor making deadlines and reveal times effective, we're interested to hear feedback too.

Next Yuletide, we may review franchise rules to make sure we're being consistent and fair. We may also specifically review rules for music videos.

As requested by a participant, we will also be adding a section to our rules on AO3 listing what you can expect from the mod team’s communications and conduct. We have had an internal Code of Conduct for several years but agree it would be helpful to share a public version.

Again, feedback on these or other topics is also welcome.

Thank you for helping to make Yuletide 2025 a wonderful event.

jadelennox

The Clockwork Alarm (3058 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lirael (Old Kingdom), Imshi (Old Kingdom), The Disreputable Dog | Kibeth
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2025, The Great Library of the Clayr, and its many fun and exiting rooms
Summary:

An alarm sounds in the library while most of the staff have been called to the Watch. Typically a Third Assistant Librarian wouldn't be brought along to respond to an alarm, but when only Lirael and Imshi are left in the Reading Room....

Goalposts (7607 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Galadriel "El" Higgins/Orion Lake, Orion Lake & Guo Yi Liu
Characters: Orion Lake, Scholomance (Scholomance - Novik), Guo Yi Liu
Additional Tags: POV Orion Lake, Post-The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance, The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance Spoilers, Orion gets a hobby, Back-To-School Night at the Scholomance, Poetry, (sort of), creative writing, Post-Canon, El is mentioned a whole lot but not actually present, Angst, the mortifying ordeal of becoming your own person
Summary:

At first Orion started with love poems.

whatever souls are made of (15800 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Brad Boimler/Beckett Mariner
Characters: Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, Crew of the Starship Cerritos (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Episode: s05e01 Dos Cerritos (Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alternate Season/Series 05, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine References, Post-Dominion War (Star Trek), Friendship/Love, Identity Issues, discussion of the mirror universe, Angst, Pining, Comedy, Romance, Parallel Universes
Summary:

After the alternate-universe Becky Freeman tries to swap lives with Mariner in 5x01 "Dos Cerritos," Rutherford and T'Lyn decide to work out how to detect any further potential impostors from alternate universes.

This ends up being a not so great idea that stresses everybody out.

(Especially Boimler.)

denise posting in

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

starryeyedknight posting in

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Hello! I’ve got a rather niche one particularly for Arabic speakers/historians - my writing is set in the medieval crusading period, where European/Catholic individuals would often use expressions of annoyance/surprise/exasperation that are largely religious-based, such as ‘oh sweet Christ’, 'dear God', ‘Christ’s bones’, ‘Saint Jude’s eyes’ etc etc. (One can then make as crude as you like while focusing a lot around divine/saintly body parts!).

I also have a few Levantine Arab Christian characters with mixed Arab/European heritage and I'm wondering if the above sort of religious-based swearing might have been used also in the Levant (particularly if they've taken some verbal influence from their European father), or if would come across as jarring to use these more western-associated idioms in a Middle Eastern setting?

Also: I've done some research around Arabic idioms already, but it would also be great to hear of any Arabic phrases (either in Arabic or transliterated) of annoyance or surprise similar to 'oh Christ' or 'for God's sake' that might be used? (I know ‘ya Allah’ is one such phrase but I’m trying to diversify) Similarly, any other recommendations of non-religious exclamations (of the ‘damn, bugger, blast’ varieties) would be very helpful!

Current Mood: chipper

beluosus

lunam silentem iam tegit atra nox
thuris sacerdos luxuriem serit
   umbrae fragrantes quo susurrant
      tunc adytum prope sisto mystes

arcana celat in calathis cohors
subter sacelli progreditur fores
   ac intus evanescit omnis
      destituor miser ante limen

quapropter, aio, me prohibes, dea,
sacris venustis ? nonne sat hostias
   intaminatas immolebam ?
      vana cadunt queribunda verba

jadelennox

Some Yuletide recs. I am saving a bunch of longer stories and some that are puzzles for when I have more focus.

( Deadloch, Dragonriders of Pern, Lively St. Lemeston, Nettle & Bone, Some Desperate Glory, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, The Good Place, The Lottery, The Residence )

michelel72 posting in

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I'm hoping these are straightforward questions, but I couldn't find a way to word the first to get any relevant results in web searches, and the second got weird on me.

The context is a civilian with extensive field-medic-style training providing off-the-books, in-home medical/supportive care to a preteen who is ill with a viral* fever-inducing illness. (* Viral seems easier; but bacterial is possible if necessary.) The setting is the modern-day (or at least vaguely post-2010) United States.

1. Is it feasible to administer intravenous (IV) saline without an infusion pump? (I've been assuming it is but want to double-check.)

( cut for IV details )

2. Is there a point at which a childhood (viral) fever is dangerous?

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Many thanks!

beluosus

γραμματικὴ μ'ἐποιεῖ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον μεθύοντα
ἐκλείψω ταχέως ἐν Βαβυλῶνι βίον

beluosus

demum bruma venit requiescitque algida tellus
      gens tremebunda gelu subsidet ante focum
emoritur fugiens annus ; stant duriter orsa
      aut oblita cadunt — pigra manus, cor iners
ausculte in tenebris : canit perdulce Camena nivosa
      suscipe nam calamum ; denique finis adest

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Dermatologists?

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Medieval 'Cussing' in the Middle East

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IV saline without infusion pump; childhood fevers

epigramma de (neglegenter) heteroclitis verborum formis linguae akkadicae recentioris

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